Rogue waves were big news a couple decades ago. They are nasty - basically breakers in the middle of nowhere, so do require the right conditions to form. Like a tornado requires the right conditions.
Maybe they've demonstrated that the right conditions do regularly occur in that area.
Taking Facebook as the example - The ethics were clearly understood from the outset. It wasn't a fuzzy or difficult line to comprehend. The real problem is free markets have no rules. If Zuckerberg didn't beeline to the bottom then someone else would've.
Presumably Facebook will subsequently strongly advocate for certain rules to be cast into law as suits them.
Given all the design work is done on the workstation by typing a lot of HDL code and doing spice simulations and maybe even some layout work, the particular focus of this one is purely a software investment.
"The dream of something for nothing is not sustainable." does not always have to be true.
Sure, while human labour is needed the premise holds true. But once machines are doing all the work then there is no-one to pay money for work... then money ceases to have a purpose.
At some point along that road the big problem becomes what will humans do to each other when we no longer depend on one another for our comforts.
Yes it is bad design - called write-back caching. It's one of the dumbest of ideas for removables, sits alongside auto-run.
Removables should always immediately flush all write data, as in use write-through caching. I doubt it will ever be fixed though, it's been that way for 500 million years already.
There's a world of difference in materials and manufacturing now too. SpaceX has proven that the biggest budgets are no longer needed to enter space... and, maybe more importantly, that action can be rapid if objectives don't keep changing every 8 years.
You were the one talking about speed being relevant. I had classed all chips and connectors equally originally.
There is a ton of connections along at least two edges of the flat panel display to form the array drivers. All of that needs quite a few high speed chips.
Well, I can't see gold having another purpose in the old CRTs. Maybe gold was just the safe bet in the past so ended up in all chips back then.
Modern digital processors are no slouch on the freq front. And modern TVs have their fair shear of digital processing in them.
Tin sounds like a crap material for this use. The shear density of I/O, in excess of 1000 pins for some, means tin on the bond points must be a nightmare preventing it whiskering or diffusing in weird ways. Copper seems a decent fit for a much cheaper alternative to gold. Or even silver for top draw conductivity.
LCD, plasma and OLED will additionally have gold plated connectors for the high speed data cabling.
Gees, give me a break. It's not the legs themselves but the chips needed to manage/drive all those legs. The bonded chip pins have gold jumper wires from the package to the silicon.
5.6 grammes won't go far given how heavy gold is. Even the basic old TVs and VGA monitors had chips in them to deal with all the timing, not to mention OSD, and even the analogue amplifiers were in chips. The power supplies have a chip or two to manage all the switch-mode functions.
I assume individual packaged transistors/diodes use copper or silver jumper wires because they can have large bonding pads on the silicon, but it is possible gold is required there too.
LCD/Plasma/OLED will have even more gold simply because of the huge mass of pins driving the display array.
Lithium-Polymer's are the usual Lithium-Cobalt based chemistry. Chemically no different from a laptop battery. 3.6-3.7 volts per cell. These have the highest energy density and are prone to spontaneously going on fire.
Lithium-Phosphates are a distinct separate battery group using rare-earths and with no Cobalt. 3.1-3.2 volts per cell. Energy density is closer to NiMH batteries and don't have thermal issues.
It's only a DRAM problem because of DRAM's requirement for refreshing. Other RAM types don't have the constant discharge curve so won't be susceptible.
SRAM is the fastest. Buffers and caches are built of SRAM. MRAM is waiting in the wings to replace all DRAM and possibly some bulk SRAM in the larger caches too.
I'm guessing improved DRAM refresh logic can fix the issue though.
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The simulation is of potential for rogue waves.
Doesn't need any ship present for demonstrating rogue wave potential.
The two aren't necessarily separate. A demonstration can be a simulation of possible conditions that fits known parameters.
The TV'ised version probably will be more sensational than showing any hard numbers though.
Rogue waves were big news a couple decades ago. They are nasty - basically breakers in the middle of nowhere, so do require the right conditions to form. Like a tornado requires the right conditions.
Maybe they've demonstrated that the right conditions do regularly occur in that area.
Taking Facebook as the example - The ethics were clearly understood from the outset. It wasn't a fuzzy or difficult line to comprehend. The real problem is free markets have no rules. If Zuckerberg didn't beeline to the bottom then someone else would've.
Presumably Facebook will subsequently strongly advocate for certain rules to be cast into law as suits them.
is always the first thing I think of when I think about Android and ChromeOS ... and Windoze these days too. Can't get any lower than Windoze.
Given all the design work is done on the workstation by typing a lot of HDL code and doing spice simulations and maybe even some layout work, the particular focus of this one is purely a software investment.
"The dream of something for nothing is not sustainable." does not always have to be true.
Sure, while human labour is needed the premise holds true. But once machines are doing all the work then there is no-one to pay money for work ... then money ceases to have a purpose.
At some point along that road the big problem becomes what will humans do to each other when we no longer depend on one another for our comforts.
Ads should only be topic based. Things like search criteria, clicked links, subject matter of the webpage.
Ditch tracking.
Yes it is bad design - called write-back caching. It's one of the dumbest of ideas for removables, sits alongside auto-run.
Removables should always immediately flush all write data, as in use write-through caching. I doubt it will ever be fixed though, it's been that way for 500 million years already.
Amazon is the zombies.
There's a world of difference in materials and manufacturing now too. SpaceX has proven that the biggest budgets are no longer needed to enter space ... and, maybe more importantly, that action can be rapid if objectives don't keep changing every 8 years.
individually have different start times. 6 AM starts exist and 7 AM is reasonably common.
Try bringing the idea up at work.
Someone that can't be ass'd to try, would be the weak minded one.
You were the one talking about speed being relevant. I had classed all chips and connectors equally originally.
There is a ton of connections along at least two edges of the flat panel display to form the array drivers. All of that needs quite a few high speed chips.
I did say "connectors". I'm not sure how that could be interpreted as wires in a cable.
Well, I can't see gold having another purpose in the old CRTs. Maybe gold was just the safe bet in the past so ended up in all chips back then.
Modern digital processors are no slouch on the freq front. And modern TVs have their fair shear of digital processing in them.
Tin sounds like a crap material for this use. The shear density of I/O, in excess of 1000 pins for some, means tin on the bond points must be a nightmare preventing it whiskering or diffusing in weird ways. Copper seems a decent fit for a much cheaper alternative to gold. Or even silver for top draw conductivity.
LCD, plasma and OLED will additionally have gold plated connectors for the high speed data cabling.
Gees, give me a break. It's not the legs themselves but the chips needed to manage/drive all those legs. The bonded chip pins have gold jumper wires from the package to the silicon.
5.6 grammes won't go far given how heavy gold is. Even the basic old TVs and VGA monitors had chips in them to deal with all the timing, not to mention OSD, and even the analogue amplifiers were in chips. The power supplies have a chip or two to manage all the switch-mode functions.
I assume individual packaged transistors/diodes use copper or silver jumper wires because they can have large bonding pads on the silicon, but it is possible gold is required there too.
LCD/Plasma/OLED will have even more gold simply because of the huge mass of pins driving the display array.
but alas SD cards don't seem to support it.
Time for DRAM to return to normal too!
Lithium-Polymer's are the usual Lithium-Cobalt based chemistry. Chemically no different from a laptop battery. 3.6-3.7 volts per cell. These have the highest energy density and are prone to spontaneously going on fire.
Lithium-Phosphates are a distinct separate battery group using rare-earths and with no Cobalt. 3.1-3.2 volts per cell. Energy density is closer to NiMH batteries and don't have thermal issues.
Some types are endless suckers for micro-transactions for virtual bling. The target market will be virtual dress-me-ups.
No need for fast hardware, but quality pictures and sound will help a plenty.
And then comes the cuddly infomercials with a buy-now button.
The AVR's are SRAM based. Bulk DRAM inside any uController is almost unheard of. https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
The article should be making the distinction.
It's only a DRAM problem because of DRAM's requirement for refreshing. Other RAM types don't have the constant discharge curve so won't be susceptible.
SRAM is the fastest. Buffers and caches are built of SRAM. MRAM is waiting in the wings to replace all DRAM and possibly some bulk SRAM in the larger caches too.
I'm guessing improved DRAM refresh logic can fix the issue though.